Design impacts the healing environment. What are the best methods for serving patients' needs in a welcoming setting while attracting and retaining high-quality healthcare professionals? How do you flexibly design across all scales, factoring in varied patient volumes and future technological advances?

Past Events

Monica Nakielski, Senior Program Manager, Sustainability, Partners HealthCare will provide an introduction and overview of sustainability at Partners and its affiliate hospitals. The presentation will demonstrate the importance of a systems approach in disease prevention and the role health systems and hospitals play through their furnishings and building material purchases. Monica will include a Case Study of the new Partners headquarters at Assembly Row and will focus on chemicals management using a six classes framework and approach.

The presentation will help us understand the health and environmental concerns associated with the six classes chemicals in furnishings and building products and analyze gaps in knowledge related to their safety, efficacy, and performance. Opportunities for making purchasing decisions based on the current evidence of safety, effectiveness, and cost of chemicals in furnishings and building products will be explained.

John Muir Health includes two medical centers and over 30 outpatient sites of care in Contra Costa County, CA. The Innova Group is leading integrated strategic facility master plans for the hospitals and the ambulatory network that incorporate current strategic initiatives, operational demands, regulatory requirements and major end-of-life investments through 2030. The plans will coordinate and optimize facility capital investments resulting in an integrated and actionable, phased year by year capital plan.

John Moorhead AIA will be sharing the insights gained from a 25-plus person design team that was co-located to a site office with members of the client team, program management team, construction management team, and the engineering disciplines.

Rush University Medical Center was looking to re-position themselves in the Chicago healthcare market and believed that having a campus that was on equal footing with their high standard of caregiving was vital. Being the medical center of choice as well as the employer of choice meant they needed to address the aging facilities on their piece of the Illinois Medical District on the west side of Chicago. They also saw this project as a moment of transformation, and wanted to signal the community of their ability to provide 21st century medicine.

John was a member of the Perkins + Will project team for Rush University Medical Center and is now a Principal and Design Director at TRO.